DJGPP and alignment

Richard Henderson rth@cygnus.com
Wed Jul 21 11:47:00 GMT 1999


On Wed, Jul 21, 1999 at 12:07:18PM -0400, Mark E. wrote:
> A consensus of the DJGPP workers has decided that the default 
> alignment should be 16 bytes instead of the current 4 bytes since 16 is 
> the recommended Intel alignment.

I fear you're getting yourself into trouble, since there's no
way to change the section alignment in coff. 

If you do any sort of collect-sections-to-make-data kinds of
things like .ctors or .dtors, that'll break.  Do you know that
you're using collect2 to construct constructor lists?


r~


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